Do you know this Gmail hack??

[@ilovestitch]

What we really need is instead of an 'unsubscribe' button, a 'single combat' button where when we press it we get to fight the CEO of the spamming company 1 on 1

[@NorthernChimp]

Agreed.

[@BurninGems]

​@@NorthernChimpagree to agreed

[@kroks06]

or call a lawyer button, with this trick they are clearly identified.

[@arthurkallinen]

Gmail actually has it sometimes, when it is able to figure it out.

[@TommyCullen-VacuumConnisour]

I don't want to take on Zuckerberg, he will use his Robotic powers and royally fuck me over.

[@unstabledefusion]

Modern spammers can probably just detect everything after the plus, remove it, and send it to your standard email address. Not really that hard to bypass

[@billygilbert7911]

Bubble burster...😂

[@jmr]

You're right but we aren't there yet. You can also run your own domain like I do and create a different address for every service.

[@akhilleusuggo]

Who said that your main email is the one without a plus. You could just make it as a dummy email, to see who are this advanced spammers.

[@mozvi1436]

I don't think enough people use this method, spammers probably won't bother

[@ChaceBonanno]

@@jmrit can be done without getting your own domain by using any free email aliasing service

[@AnyanwuChimebuka]

Some web apps can use validation to prevent you from inputting +, but asides that, using + gives other advantage like signing up to a service several times with the same email, can be useful for unlimited free trials offer

[@psyience3213]

Oh shit brilliant

[@Fialectro]

And the exact reason why trials are becoming less prevalent from blatant abuse like this.

[@Wranorn]

Came to say just this thank you.

[@darealjohnsmith]

The dot trick should work for that

[@_kidrah]

@@darealjohnsmith what is the dot trick?

[@deepdeep1429]

Hey ppl, I'm a retired computer/IT person, Yet I still find Meta spy club so informative and straight forward. Thanks for your advise and helping the people...........Great work and love watching.

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[@margretamaning8038]

How can I join the Meta spy club

[@CytoZar]

Heyy I would like to ask you some questions about computer/it where can I reach you

[@fireboyhendrick3805]

Bot. The Dead internet theory gets closer to reality every day🔅🔆

[@vijaybhardwaj3921]

It just kept glitching on me when I tried this video tutorial so firstly I would say thank you for the video and secondly, thank you Dale Valskov meeting you was a blessing in disguise keep up with the good work I'm sure a lot of people will be needing your assistance iin the nearest future after seeing this

[@SonuBhambid]

Yes please. I would love a video that does a deep dive on the *Metaspyclub* project

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[@Jaykrishna-ft6nu]

Congratulations, Dale Valskov I am relieved that you are out there fighting these thugs, We musttake every precaution to protect the elderly and the general public from these despicable con artists. Congratulations to You!! You deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for ensuring our security.

[@Wanetopia]

He does look like a Valskov... The beard, lol.

[@Chechenia_Noaxchi]

he is american not slavic

[@VivekKumar-hn6xt]

Your work speaks volumes of the kind of man you are. efficient, organized and result oriented well done , Dale Valskov you're soo good at what you do

[@BeachFrontSolutions]

I think you’ve missed the most important detail regarding the “+” email identifier in my opinion. For me the biggest benefit is using it to parse through login credentials exposed via breached data sets; this allows us to trace through which sites/services have been compromised. Doing this we’ve been able to harden our own endpoints against clients email addresses / credentials that have been compromised and even identified 4 breaches prior to the public being notified.

[@jacob.mccormack]

Been using this for years. A lot of places won't allow you to use the plus sign when you sign up anymore. The webapp has an input filter.

[@1ronman1]

That’s funny I won’t sign up for those then 😂

[@Wrutschgeluck]

Interesting. Thx for sharing.

[@DefCantGame]

yeah some validate to deny special characters and such, but for the most part it works with most modern services, and just about any small service

[@needamuffin]

​@@1ronman1My ISP did it to me the other day. Either I used my normal email address or I can't get internet access.

[@thegoldenatlas753]

Partially because they realized it can be used for things like sql injections. Though this is possible reason too

[@Jessicarothrock]

Honestly, just owning it and not trying to hide it is partially why I watch you. It's the honorable thing to do and it makes the rest of the jobs much more believed when you are known out of the spots like that, so thank you joelthics

[@ajanmondal4363]

It's amazing what you do Dale Valskov We need a lot of people with your skills and set who have good intentions and spread love

[@kataseiko]

I have used this for a while and I have had quite a bit of spam. A few years ago, we had the new GDPR rules, and now I can roll up to a company's legal department, tell them "you sold my email address, I know because of the email plus system, pay me money" and I got paid every. single. time. The worst offender so far is Facebook.

[@Thorthedhexfyttggfff]

Does this work everywhere?

[@konkenbonken]

How much money?

[@kataseiko]

@@konkenbonken About 500€ per company and incident. The official fines are much higher than that.

[@kataseiko]

@@Thorthedhexfyttggfff It works for most countries where the GDPR is in effect. So essentially all of EU and China. Yes, China has copied the GDPR.

[@decadentanciennebourgeoisie]

@@kataseiko China is based af then. Every country that does not copy and apply the GDPR in its territory is corrupt and works against its own citizens. Simple as that.

[@Galesh151]

Metaspyclub anticipation is building to a fever pitch! 😥

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[@RakeshSahu-oz3st]

Account of mine also got hacked and I followed the method as explained in this video but I'm unable to proceed after recording the selfie video. Thank you Dale Valskov . It brings me immense joy to witness his name appearing frequently in comments, a clear indication of the commendable work he’s been doing.

[@jmr]

I've used the "." trick but not the "+" trick. I run my own domain and give everyone a different email address. I use their name, date, and a random verification string so the addresses can't be reverse engineered.

[@NorthernChimp]

Interesting.

[@ToroNero]

how many shady companies did you catch?

[@jmr]

@@ToroNero That's a great question. I've been doing this for years now and haven't caught any. I suspect the reason is my spam filter. Out of curiosity I'll look through my spam and see what email addresses are being used.

[@typeins]

@@jmrtell us how it was

[@jmr]

@@typeins It's crazy because I can't find any instances of my email address being sold or shared accept one instance I approved. They only shared the address with the partners I approved so that's fine. The bulk of the spam email I'm getting are addressed to decade and decades old(one I've had for at least 25 years) addresses that were listed as contacts for my domain names at one time. That was publicly searchable information. I did find several legitimate emails in my spam folder though. At this point I might be better off without a spam filter. My domain contact information is private now so I can update those email addresses and filter anything addressed to those old email addresses. If this proved anything to me it's that the problem isn't so bad anymore. I'll continue to do things the same way though because someone will eventually mess up and I want to know who.

[@begginerm9339]

Im so happy I subbed to u, first its OSI, then google dorking, AI prompting now this. amazing.

[@mikelandry2007]

Some companies are aware of that now and they don't accept emails with a plus sign. We need another alternative other than creating new emails.

[@efgreencross]

There are other aliasing like SimpleLogin (you can read more about this) but there are some companies that understand this alternative type of aliasing which blocks user from signing up.

[@Krzys_D]

You can put periods within characters in your email address and it will still allow emails thru, though you'll have to remember which places you put those periods in for Edit: Found out today this seems to only work with Gmail

[@mikelandry2007]

@@Krzys_D thank you, I'll try it

[@nmac101]

​@@Krzys_D Sounds like a nice trick. I'm gonna write the companies names in morse code if they dont allow the plus trick.

[@LonelyAncient]

alternatively if it's for a website you won't use often you can use websites like temp mail. that give you an email that lasts 10 minutes, doesn't work on all websites because of spam protection obviously but can help bypass "you need an account to read our clickbait.".

[@L1bertyforall]

Hat tip to you my good man. This is HUGE!

[@kunka592]

Unless you're dealing with money or something important, just use a trash email or even a temp email service if you only need to activate something once and don't care about using that account in the future.

[@ZacklFair]

Imagine that account suddenly becomes important.

[@cdub5033]

Setup several different address' for specific purposes.

[@spoopyscaryskelebones3846]

There are temporary email websites

[@kenx9984]

You can't even leave it alone for long time google will check inactive email 😂

[@stormvexed]

This is really helpful, but usually it's really easy to tell where the spam started and now every company sells your data or they lie about it.

[@per_sev]

Except that many companies mark it as an invalid email if you have a + in there and thus won't allow you to use their site if you do that, and even if they didn't the company could still run a program to parse out the + and everything between it and the @, so really the only guaranteed way is to set up your own email service, create a bunch of individual accts for everything, and then have them forward everything to your main email inbox.

[@touma-san91]

If you get newsletter from them and it's parsed out, you can easily speculate what their purpose of it was though

[@per_sev]

@@touma-san91 That's assuming they remove it for their own mailing purposes, and not just from mailing list that they sell.

[@per_sev]

@tatsu4935 It's easier to just use email aliases, and shut down any that get spammed.

[@AltonV]

No need to set up a bunch of individual accounts if you are using your own email service. Just create one as a catch all

[@per_sev]

@AltonV That obviously is the more ideal method because then you control everything, but isn't what's being discussed here.

[@jeffkrebs]

I knew this, however many companies have been able to outsmart this and not allow it when signing up for services

[@EdBruceWRX]

I use Firefox Relay. So no plus but completely random email.

[@osbjmg]

If it's random, how do you track where they got it from?

[@EdBruceWRX]

@@osbjmg When it is created the interface saves a description of the web page. Guessing it either uses the TLD or extracts html header info.

[@osbjmg]

@@EdBruceWRX ah, thanks for teaching me something new!

[@almostprofessionalrecords6651]

icloud has the same thing

[@fram1111]

You come up with amazing stuff, and I really appreciate it. Also Love all you put your children in to visit any website, that was priceless.

[@ChodaBoyUSA]

Yes, I do know about this, yes I do use it, but some UIs claim '+' is an invalid character when entering an e-mail address.

[@TheKingTywinLannister]

There was some other symbol that worked too but I can remember which one.

[@paskky913]

Thanks for not making it a loop, it's so cliché lately that I really started to hate it

[@imandyritchie]

Another really clever hack on this is to automatically move any email that contains the word "unsubscribe" into your spam folder

[@térrence369]

Nowadays spammers are the literate programmers.

[@jess_n_atx]

Here is a similar tip. You can put a dot anywhere your Email address and whatever you're signing up for will thank its a different Email but will still go to your inbox. Also helpful to let you know who sold your data.

[@umanggangadya4353]

Kudos to you, Dale Valskov for your extraordinary dedication and hard work in helping me recover my account. Your efforts are truly commendable, and I encourage you to maintain this exceptional standard as you embark on future endeavors. The path ahead is filled with promise for someone of your caliber

[@lyfandeth]

Yes, that works IF the other party's mail server supports it. Many companies AND some ISPs don't support this, even though it is a "required" email standard.

[@tabascocrimson7865]

They say the most challenging thing in programming is to strip +anything off a text string. - Hackerman

[@easierthanlife1826]

Sarcasm?

[@saschakirchner1004]

Damn. Did really not know this. Thought he would mention the point which could be anywhere. Thanks for this.

[@HardeepSingh-gw9im]

I'm literally overwhelmed, You are a blessing to the world. I can't thank you enough Dale Valskov for helping me with my account recovery. My prayers will always be with you and your team. Keep it up guys. Love from Maldives. There are many people out there I pray everybody get help.

[@zhalberd]

What!? This is badass. Thanks Chuck!

[@AbhishekSonkar-r5n]

Dale Valskov . I really appreciate your efforts and dedication towards the work. May God bless you to keep showing your worth and skills like this in the future

[@aweisen1]

You should definitely use this idea. Just be aware that many places have a filter on that prevent you from using the "+" and some places are just behind the time and won't allow you to input a significantly long email address.

[@beentheredonethatunfortunately]

Behind the times? I suspect the RFC existed well before such companies had even thought of using email addresses so not so much "behind the times" more "ignoring the standards".

[@Koshzor]

And then you'll find that half of mail scripts don't know how to correctly handle + in the mail addresses :)

[@ThomasLe]

this is my biggest frustration. Ive used this for years but lots of places I've tried don't consider a + a valid symbol in an email. Some places dont even recognize other TLDs as valid.

[@SzaboB33]

One time I used this for delivery and the courier site asked for my mail and did not do my query because I had an "invalid email address". Luckily that check was client side and I could use burp to send my email with the plus sign and the backend accepted :D

[@ocelotxp]

I mean, great, but it's not like you can turn around and sue those companies

[@soul_maestro]

it does allow you if it's a company with a good public reputation to contact them and tell them that they either sold the data without your consent - big no-no in EU thanx to GDPR - , some of their "trusted parties" aren't following the rules they set out in the privacy-agreement or that they have a databreach which they didn't knew about yet. yes, i have had all 3 happen to me. and i caught them all thanks to a similar trick using unique-per-requester mailaddresses with a personal domainname and a catch-all mailbox.

[@andrew5821]

You can't sue, but you can set a custom filter on gmail to block emails from that specific email handle.

[@soul_maestro]

it not being worth sueing them, doesn't mean you can't sue them. however if they break the law, or not follow the agreements both them and you agreed on, you could. too bad, all those in "the land of the free", don't have the freedom of enjoying any privacy online.

[@tgreen420]

Same thing with periods too. you can add a period anywhere in your address to create an "alias"

[@OneManCanStopTheMotorOfWorld]

Can confirm, if we still want your email. This will not hinder us lol

[@reductor_]

been doing this with a catch all for about 20yrs, while it's a good way to identify sold emails often it just comes down to hacked websites then emails being used from those.

[@ionicafardefrica]

spammers don't care. They will still happily send you all their crap. Even more so, if they suspect you will actually read that email for any reason

[@DMS20231]

Even though the RFC allows a plus sign in an email address, I find that many companies consider it invalid. It’s very obnoxious for them to unilaterally decide what’s allowed in an email address.

[@popeter]

so many site block plus addresses now sadly

[@Rylocomp]

Some websites have now blocked this trick but pretty handy😮

[@RaghavendraKumar-ch5pd]

In my case, I had no image of myself on it which clearly stated I am a step behind. Dale Valskov was God’s sent. I appreciate your tireless efforts in assisting me with the account recovery. Your professionalism and commitment to finding a solution were evident at every step. Thank you for making the process efficient and effective.

[@DeepakGautamX]

Don't take headache. Just mark them as spam. They will always land in spam and clean your spam after month or year. You can set auto clean too.

[@UvarajKumar-vx3np]

Kindly let me to express my sincere gratitude for the exceptional support and dedication Dale Valskov provided in helping me with business account. Your willingness to go above and beyond, investing additional time and effort, has been invaluable to me. The meticulous attention to detail and unwavering commitment you demonstrated throughout this process is truly commendable. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your outstanding assistance.

[@stevedixon921]

I did something like that when I had access to an exchange server at work. I'd create aliases for anything that required an email address (like to download drivers). It gave me the ability to immediately dump those emails once I was done downloading the driver/app/whatever. All email systems should support this (though we all know why it is not).

[@oscargr_]

Like Starbucks (or the company buying their addresses) doesn't know what a + in a Gmail address means 😂😂

[@RamikinHorde]

You vastly overestimate how much spam companies care. So someone they're spamming knows where they bought it from...so? Spamming, like scamming, is targeted at the lowest common denominator. Its not that they *can't* - they're not going to put in work to bypass your avoidance or information gathering because they literally dont care

[@oscargr_]

@@RamikinHorde True, but email sellers charge more for "clean" lists.

[@DefCantGame]

Most of these companies arent filtering their address, they are just getting them and adding them to the list of people to blast spam to

[@beagleonvodka]

Chuck you're an all time legend, love this!!!

[@mrsbluesky8415]

I received the most spam when I used the phish button on my email accounts to report the spam. Suddenly I started receiving 3 x the spam and it hadn’t stopped. How unusual eh?

[@apIthletIcc]

I have experienced the same uptick after starting to report phishing attempts. Seems email providers have made ineffectual efforts to curb it so rather than reporting them I go into the trenches and investigate the abuse myself. Then when I do report it, instead of a paragraph they get an entire encyclopedia to sift through.

[@Nishandh_Mayiladan]

same experience here

[@peaceformula5830]

The reason for that is that the spammers can see if you interacted with their message. Its will tell them if you clicked on, opened, read, deleted, reported their message. Then they have automated response, oh we have a person interacting here and send more. I use the ignore conversation button on outlook and it seems to work without increasing spam

[@sarahkhalid2867]

Dude, thank you from the bottom of my heart❤❤❤❤❤

[@TheXYGhost]

I did that with all presidential candidates in 2008 and Obama shared his list with Hillary and Biden no other candidate shared anything except them. I’m still getting Biden emails with Obama’s name on it.

[@MikeyD2487]

Then the spammers remove +servicename and boom. You don’t know who sent it anymore lol Hell, Google will probably remove it for them when they sell it to third parties 😂

[@CorrosiveCitrus]

That's okay if your inbox is already set up to send anything wihtout the alias to your junk

[@NOMAd_THe_HACKEr]

Thankfully I wont have to deal with spam anymore considering I got a job with one of the biggest companies in the world for my first IT job. Big thanks to you man, you've helped me so much!!!

[@nasirubello3098]

Hello, i need to access an account urgently but i dont have the login details. Please how do i do this😢

[@emmanuelmontalvo1676]

Is that your account or your X's account?

[@prideaaron5128]

This right here! I've watched quite a bit of this guys stuff and this is THEE best info in my opinion ever!

[@arrone7]

This has been around for over a decade and known more commonly years ago. Sorry, but even if this video was a year ago. It's OLD NEWS mate.

[@Pennytechnews]

I didn't know of this tip so still informative to some newbies

[@michaelmanning4158]

i legitimately had no idea this was a thing i'm doing this for everything now.

[@ketheric]

That's why most websites built in the past 10 years don't accept the plus sign anymore in email addresses.

[@JudeBaba-v3o]

Thanks Chuck keep the contents rolling…you got a Network godson from Naija 🤙🏾

[@jenslyn42]

Idea is good, I thought so many years ago. Issue is that a LOT of websites use crappy email verifying scripts, so they think plus sign is invalid

[@lightenblade7596]

Thank you. I had no idea this feature even exist.

[@ChristianPeterBrown]

I use it for a long time and yes I caught one company, where ppl took over data from old company to new company, which in EU is also not allowed without consent.

[@ingamelevi1929]

This only works until the spam companies start parsing email addresses to remove anything after the +

[@DerSolinski]

Yeah works only sorta, it either gets filtered or email fields outright refuse +addresses in the first place.

[@pankajunati]

Adrian Ruthnik's transition to the clear web has made their services more accessible without compromising on security. Their commitment to ethical practices sets them apart.

[@KaranveerSingh97]

Gmail isn't the only one that does plus addressing ... So for those of you using Microsoft or something can also use it

[@Apipoulai]

use it all the time. thanks for spreading the word

[@Steven-u5w]

This sounds interesting. Keeping spammers at bay and also maybe hackers to what trying hack into your account

[@UmGolpePorDia]

Several websites no longer accept email addresses with a + sign

[@stuffandthangs3953]

Dude you're brilliant.

[@BRAIN-toxic]

I didn’t know. Thank you, this can be useful.

[@disgustedluigi]

Apple’s “hide my email” for iCloud email is much better and easier. It randomly creates an email address that forwards to your main email. You can delete it anytime. Great for trials, temporary accounts, or just anything that isn’t critical.

[@victoro.velasquez8104]

That sounds very useful, thanks 👍🏻

[@jaypee42]

Been using this for years. Once in a while you get a badly designed form that won’t allow the + even though it’s a part of the email tech specs.

[@Politicalhomeless]

You’re the coolest lumberjack ever dude!

[@srinivasgogula7235]

I knew this method for labeling but haven't thought it would work to track spam mails

[@NazadusVoldure]

I did something like this 20 years ago with my own domain. Practically no one doesn't sell your email address.

[@a_rehman_k]

Use this wisely. I once used this method to sign up on a government website. It failed to recognize this email after sign up and kept giving me an error saying: "incorrect email" because of the+ i assumed. So yeah... Use this wisely.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

:3 I didn't know this. Plus addressing. It shows who's getting your emails after companies sell your email address to them. Lol. Brand-new video. Thanks! 😅🏆🥇🤝🔥🐀👨‍💻💯

[@79ped]

Got like 12 mails for that reason. My private one is for personal things, secondary is for SoMe, KZbin ect, the rest is for business and subscriptions ect

[@thatprogramer]

Dude genius Thank you!

[@RushikeshTade]

Love your content Chuck ✨️

[@Guy_Sandler]

In like 3 lines of js you can auto remove the plus tag

[@iDontProgramInCpp]

People can remove the stuff after the plus, so it's not that effective. Something more effective is inserting dots in a certain combination for each website into your email address. Gmail ignores the dots when looking for a recipient. That can be bypassed too unfortunately, but it's much less obvious.

[@thunderspark1633]

What we really need is when the website/service, allows you to loging with your google account it adds this + to the email adress automaticly. But that might be a bit too much to ask and also the google API Authentication, ussualy thanks the email adress directly. Well we can dream.

[@robboerman9378]

You bet wrong…. But I never realized this super useful application! 👏 thanks for sharing again!

[@ScotHarkins]

I’ve been using the feature in combo with filters so I can assure proper handling of certain specific email items.

[@henrykandakai6955]

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Hem have more than 5k followers.

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[@noxobscurus3917]

Love this video tip, but honestly, whats the music tho!? I'm diggin the tune

[@kumar_prabhat]

if only I had US$10 for every time chuck said, "I bet you didn't know this", and I knew it already; in fact, I've known it for years.

[@GrandpasPlace]

Ok, this is not just Gmail, it is any email. Ive done this for over 20 years and there are problems with it. 1) Programmers are idiots and dont follow the RFC. As such they tend to make + an invalid character in email as well as ^ and _. As an example, the email address of ^_^ at domain is valid via the RFC but I have yet to find a web form that will allow it. 2) Spammers know about the + and tend to strip it out so as not to reveal where they got the address from.

[@HouseGurke]

PSA: This can be removed from the sold/leaked CSV faster than you can say "plus addressing" and is not worth the trouble.

[@clumsy_archives]

Thank you I really needed to know this!!!

[@Elitemusicy]

Shut up

[@alex2wr]

Another messed up part is that some places don't allow this format and return an error in the email.

[@MrChilili]

My apple iCloud lets me make any amount of random emails that I can use to sign up with, where it basically forewords emails from the company I signed up to my normal email, and the rest are on the extra one. I haven’t tried it but it might be useful